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The strange and bizarre story behind President Donald Trump in the main event of WrestleMania

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Luke Owen looks at the history of the 45th President of the United States of America headlining professional wrestling’s biggest show… Before America decided he was the man to run the country, Donald Trump was a billionaire business tycoon, a reality TV star and – more importantly – a WWE Hall of Fame inductee. Trump […]

Theory: The female lead in the Han Solo movie will be his wife

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Luke Owen looks at the casting rumours for Han Solo: A Star Wars Story… It was reported by Variety this week that Disney and Lucasfilm had begun casting the female lead of the Han Solo anthology movie, set for release on May 25th, 2018. The names included Tessa Thompson (Creed), Zoe Kravitz (X-Men: First Class) and […]

Why is everyone so upset about the live-action Lion King remake?

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Luke Owen looks at the backlash to Disney’s live-action Lion King remake… Since Tim Burton re-imagined Alice in Wonderland in a live-action format in 2010 to an incredible box office return (the film earned over $1 billion), Disney have their new mission statement: re-telling animated classics for a new generation in live-action. This success continued with […]

The evolution of the Batman suit on screen from 1943 to 2017

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Luke Owen looks back at Batman’s past… As Saturday was Batman Day [you can read two other op-eds here and here] and following on from my look back at the evolution of Spider-Man and Daredevil‘s costumes (and the Batmobile), I thought it would be fun to look back at all the big screen and (some […]

Top 11 Smegging Episodes of Red Dwarf

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Luke Owen looks back at Red smegging Dwarf… With Red Dwarf back on TV screens once again [read our review of the first episode here], I’ve been revisiting one of my all-time favourite British sitcoms featuring the adventures of the last human alive David Lister, his evolved feline partner The Cat, mechanoid Kryten, holographic smeghead Rimmer […]

Who is Squirrel Girl?

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Luke Owen delves into the history of Squirrel Girl… With comic book movies on the mind of every executive in the Hollywood system, it’s become standard practice for interviewers to ask actors if they’d like to star in a Marvel or DC film. It’s just a thing now. We at Flickering Myth have been guilty […]

Till All Are One: A Production History of The Transformers: The Movie

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Luke Owen sits down with The Transformers: The Movie director Nelson Shin, composer Vince DiCola and “The Touch” singer Stan Bush to find out how the movie got made… In 1980, Takara Toys launched a series of action figures named Daiakuron (Diaclone), transforming vehicles and robots which were piloted by another of their toylines Mikuroman […]

14 rumours about the troubled Ghostbusters reboot production

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Luke Owen sifts through the rumours… We’re only a few days away from Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters arriving in cinemas, and there has certainly been a lot said about it already. From its first trailer confusing the message, to people rejecting the idea of a female Slimer, Ghostbusters is going to have to try […]

The Enfield Poltergeist: The true story that inspired The Conjuring 2

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Luke Owen looks into the story behind The Conjuring 2… James Wan’s horror sequel The Conjuring 2 is currently scaring up the box office with nearly $200 million worldwide (and a new spin-off movie announced), but there are some out there who have criticised the filmmakers for publicising and choosing a ‘haunting’ that has been deemed […]